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Desert Island Discs

 

Data: 6 April 2003
Miejsce: BBC Radio 4, London, England
1. Waterloo Sunset
2. Ballad In Plain D
3. I'm Still Here
4. Dancing In The Street
5. Anthem
6. A Man Needs A Maid
7. For Free
8. Rudi With A Flash Light

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

Gilmour grew up in Cambridge, where his father was a senior lecturer in zoology and his mother was also a lecturer and film editor. He was educated at a private school, in the hope that he would shine academically, but he really wanted to be playing music with his friends at the local state school, the County. At 16 he left and went to the Cambridge Tech where he became friends with Syd Barratt, the legendary founder of The Pink Floyd Sound, as they were originally known.

Pink Floyd went on to become one of the most successful bands of all time with albums such as Animals,Meddle and WishYou Were Here, and most famously, The Dark Side of the Moon  and, later, The Wall.Dark Side of the Moon has remained in the best-selling albums chart ever since its release thirty years ago and has racked up some 35 million copies sold worldwide. The records were as groundbreaking in their presentation as their music, and the covers, designed by Storm Thorgeson, became iconic in their own rights: the man on fire on Wish You Were Here , the flying pig over Battersea power station on Animals ,  the black gatefold with a prism streaming light on Dark Side of the Moon. Pink Floyd concerts became a byword for spectacle through the 70s and 80s with lights and lasers and special effects.

Since the seventies David Gilmour has also worked solo and guested with Bryan Ferry and Paul McCartney among others. He has several charitable interests, recently selling his mansion in Maida Vale to Earl Spencer and donating the £4.5 million to Crisis, a homelessness and housing charity. In 2001 he performed a mainly acoustic selection of his and Pink Floyd’s songs at Robert Wyatt’s Meltdown on the South Bank. He lives on 300 acres of land in Sussex with his second wife, writer Polly Samson and four of his eight children.

David's Choice:

1. 'Waterloo Sunset'
Performer  Kinks
Composer  R Davies
Publisher  Davray Music/Carlin Music Corp
CD Title  25 Years of  Rock and Roll - 1967/Various artists.
Track  4
Label  Connoisseur Collection
Rec No  YRNR  CD 67

2. 'Ballad in Plain D'
Performer  Bob Dylan
Composer  Bob Dylan
Publisher  CBS
CD Title  Another Side of Bob Dylan
Track  10
Label  Columbia
Rec No  CK 8993

3. 'I'm Still Here'
Performer  Tom Waits
Composer  Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Publisher  Anti.inc
CD Title  Alice
Track  12
Label  Anti
Rec No  66322

4. 'Dancing in the Street'
Performer  Martha and the Vandellas
Composer  Stevenson-Gaye
Publisher  Tamla Motown
CD Title  Dancing in the Street
Track Side  1 trk 1
Label  Tamla Motown
Rec No  STML 11099

5. 'Anthem'
Performer  Leonard Cohen
Composer  Leonard Cohen
Publisher  Sony Music
CD Title  More Best of  Leonard Cohen
Track  5
Label  Columbia
Rec No  488237 2
 
6. 'A Man Needs a  Maid'
Performer  Neil Young
Composer  Neil  Young
Publisher  Broken Arrow Music Pub.
CD Title  Decade
Track  Disc 2 trk 4
Label  Reprise
Rec No  7599-27233

7. 'For Free'
Performer  Joni Mitchell
Composer  Joni Mitchell
Publisher  Warner
CD Title  Ladies of the Canyon
Track  2
Label  Reprise
Rec No  K 244085

8. 'Rudi with a Flashlight'
Performer  Lemonheads
Composer  Rainier Ptacek
Publisher  Mushed Music
CD Title  Best of the Lemonheads
Track  15
Label  Atlantic
Rec No  7567808512

Record: 'Dancing in the Street'
Book:    An English translation of the Koran
Luxury:  An acoustic Martin D.35 guitar

Source: BBC Site

Dodano:  1.08.2010